Great Ten #9, or I Was Bit by a Radioactive Uterus (But Not Really)

[arionhunter]

Writer: Tony Bedard
Artist: Scott McDaniel

So this is both the last issue and Mother of Champions's issue, which means that Bedard somehow has to write around, if he chooses, the whole baby factory issue. (To be fair, that's not really his fault - he inherits the concept from Morrison.)

Because of the page count limit, I'm going to do a lot of quick-and-dirt summarizing: So basically, Mother of Champions was a high-level scientist when a magical radioactive god particle zapped itself into her uterus. Her husband leaves her because he thinks she's now barren, which leads to self-doubt and angst. Then she has a one-night stand with a soldier and...bing! Babies.

Which is apparently more fully recapped here.

25 metahuman babies who live for a grand total of a week or so. Yeah. So now, whenever China needs an expendable meta taskforce, Mother has intercourse with either an Army volunteer or a Great Ten teammate (according to the art, babies are all male clones of him - Mother, it seems, contributes no genetic code). In her background, there's a bit about how the team's Amanda Waller figure, Jiang, doesn't want Mother to be seen as a baby-machine, but someone to be revered, but it all feels rather hollow, to be honest.

Fast-forward to now, where she's now the Mother, and is trying to convince the reclusive Socialist Red Guardsman to agree to have sex with her to create an army of super-soldiers to stop the Taiwanese robot army marching on Beijing. He's against it, but it's okay because she still believes in the ideals of the Revolution.



So they produce their mini-army and Celestial Archer convinces the false brainwashed metahuman "gods" they've been duped and zaps them back to the battlefield in China.

Also, the Taiwanese President, who has since discovered the origins of the "false gods" plot, takes the general in charge in custody and tries to patch things up with the Chinese. Crotch-kicking may be involved.





And then the assumedly brainwashed-but-Taiwanese "gods" agree to fight to defend Beijing in honor of their Chineseness, which is...internally logically consistent, story-wise, but very awkward in terms of the actual region's politics. Rally around the flag indeed.

Oh, and in case you missed it, the last page does in fact have the entire Great Ten team as fetuses.

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